why is (gid_t)-1 treated as a group mapping failure?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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James Peach wrote:

>> It's a hack to allow the nss_info layer to return
>> a primary group id and override the Windows primary
>> group (e.g gidNumber attribute in posixAccount for RFC2307).
> 
> So the idea is that when you get an account with gid == -1, 
> you allocate a local gid for it using the idmap allocate
> backend?

You just use the gid of the primary as set ny Windows.
he SFU and Windows 2003 R@ allow an arbitrary gid set for
the posix primary group.


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